The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-06
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are be praised for trying to do q good deal
with little, but never would 60 to the man
with secondhand gowns. II had 20 withous
pretty clothes till died
There is one variety theater in New York to
which by a small stretch of propriety. fashiona-
BILE women can go to matinees and it is there
that saw a handsome girl performing as q con-
tortAnist. She was none of your squirmy, ema-
ciated. snakish figures, like the men who make
you uncomfortable by their feats in the circuses.
but TALL plump. eirly sort OF girl, with pretty
little feminine tricks of manner. and . way OF
coQuettlshly seeming TO deprecate her lack OF
skirts. She did the bending over and under
chairs. the rolling like hoop and the other
contortive feats common TO that branch OF ath-
letics; and all the time she had a charming aiI
of being herself surprised by them- She WAS
Samson for strength. too, and she tossed and
sumbled her big brother about with . grace that
made it look easy.
Pocket-books have been growing simmer and
taller for the last year. They resemble clubs at
little distance. and the last fashion is to have
handles TO them; they are twelve and fourteen
inches long, and about four wide. They con-
tain one long pocket. in which one of the tiny
fashionable, embroidered handkerchiefs id
stretched out, pocket partitioned off into three
sections for change another long one in which
bills are folded. and 8 corner in which reposss q
two-inch square pad of perforated buckskin, IN
which veloutine is packed . rose Leaf Toll it
not % Gath. lest he publish it in Ashtabula,
the re is cosmetic for surreptitious use
VIII en- the bloom is not fair womans
Ii rs, or has been worried off her cheek. A SIM
pie leaf, the petal of a flower, will renew its
freshness, for you can buy now little cenloid
boxes. packed with two dozen carmine-stained
muskin rose leaves. By the application Of one
dry, the faintest blueh of health is produced;
slight moisture deepens it in intensity, and the
rose leaf held between the wetted lips = moment
makes them beautifully red las IL bee had
newly sturg them" All this you find in the
fashionable pocket book of lady just now, and
when this wallet is made of fragrant leather, or
the saurians map-like hide. or the scaly SER
pents skin. nicely bound with edges and corners
of scroll work silver, it is an interesting article
It is different from the porte-snonkey of maj.
That is usually portly affair. .rotund with
dreadful papers, stuffed with bank notes and
checks, and only relieved from downright mo-
notony bv packet of court plaster, and few
railway tickets.
Mr.. Stebbins has been an admirable husband
for ten years, and you will see, after reading
what he suffered. that he is not cruel in vowing
that he will never again 90 travelling with his
wife. She is exceedingly domestic, and her
trip, few days ago, kept her away from her
home bed over night for the first time in years
Stebbus was already tired when they took the
six-somethng train for Philadelphia. A friend
met him in the Office Of hotel next day. and
says he never saw man so discouraged. Steh-
bins confded his troubles to the friend. and,
though the case is not without parallel it is OF
sufficient interest to the general public to let il
60. Stebbins says that the journey to Phila-
delphia completed his exhaustion, and he WAC
truly delighted to be ushered, about IL o'clock,
into elegant hotel apartments. Stebhins
asro6 j. tta d~n mir IN lrnE at
evening papers and smoke a restfnl
cigar. while PAMELA unmade her
toilet ia,I He .ns spoke to. to h.T INFINITE. at I4
On all these occasions the lady was either brush
ing her hair, or folding some things. search
ing in toilet bag: and she would not let him go
bed before her. for fear he would fall instantly
to sleep, leaving her lonesome and nervous in
the strange place. at all events, the poor man
was taking bic first nap when Pame:ia SAID; "On,
dear have foreatten to wind roy watrh;' and
out of bed she piled coming back she asked him
if be had put the cough medicine in his safehel
his overcoat- Trying to think of the locality
OF that bottle awaked him completely. and the
clock was striking when he went to sleep
again. At 3:15 PAMELA said that she must have
heard something picking at the lock
and asked him about burglars nip
pers, and how thev used jimmies. That got
him into a cold perspiration with disquieting
conversation. AT 4 she knew gas was escaping,
and went around to examine all the burners.
She came hack to bed with her feet like cakes OF
drawing-room door. ami her sealskin sack WAS
the piano. Stebbins made that excursion.
at 425 she sat up ia bed. and whispered In
curdling voice that some concealed in
the room: she had heard strange sounds the
corner. Stehbins listened 1t heat going
off in the pipes, and he explained that to her.
At $50 she knew q spider had bit her hand;
she must get some camphor, and up she got.
Stebbins thinks that PAMELA was out twice
during little nap that he had, but at oil he
was brought mp standing by hideous scream.
There a mouse in the room she had seen it
rnn un the lace curtain: he could see it. too. IL
he looked. It was unusually large and fero-
cious mouse that shook the lace curtain IN .
threatening manner. This discussion and its
consequent excite meut kept poor Stebbins awake
till 6. The was trying TO get forty winks
and prevent having sick headache next day,
when PAMELA slid out to pull down the blind,
taking the precaufion to cry ''Shooi shool' sew
eral times and rap on the floor with slipper be-
fore she put her shoe down At 7:30 PAMELA
got up and began her toilet About noon
friend found him asleep in a chair.
'sWhat want 10 know" said Stebbins, sis
how I'm going to live if this thing goes dur
ing the six months of our proposed tour, with
Pamela In a room nearly everv night
S,ebbins's face lightend only once that day.
Il was when he went for a walk and found this
sign on a DOORWAY: SDivorces procured in any
State without publicity" He had to be torn
awav from this legend and he says that the
only raw of hope that ilumines his tour is that
refracted gleam from q tin slgr.
CLARA BELLE